Through mindfulness practice and being in the present, individuals can enhance their well-being, reduces stress and better manage challenging emotions like anger, fear and anxiety. 

Research shows that mindfulness practice yields numerous benefits for working adults including burnout, enabling the building of positive workplace relationships, supports collaboration, enhancing resilience in the face of challenges, better task performance, creativity, and adaptability to change.

Other studies targeted at the elderly have also linked mindfulness to reducing loneliness, a major risk factor for health problems in the elderly, and slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

This four-week programme is developed based on the most established and recognised mindfulness programme in the world – Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). MBSR was created by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Centre for Mindfulness.

This programme aims to help working adults and retirees to:

• Improve concentration and work efficiency.
• Cope with stressful experiences at work or home, including managing pain and illnesses.
• Better navigate difficult emotions such as anger, fear and anxiety.
• Improve sleep quality.
• Letting go of worries about the future and being in the present moment.